Well, not that bad here, but probably similar situation with a 9 year old P4 Laptop with 2GB of RAM. The workaround was easy in terminal: sudo chmod -x /urs/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_* after I uninstalled strigi.
Now everything boots fast, emails are read fast, everything is much smoother, no unresponsive desktop, ... Cheers, Ingo On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:24:01 Valter Mura wrote: > Hi All, > > with regret, I can say I have tried everything for my poor system, but > it cannot afford such a heavy workload. > > My System (very old with some updates): Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz / Ram: 1 GB / > Video Card: ATI 512 MB > > History: I was coming from Natty 11.04 and Kmail-1. Everything was going > smooth. Not so fast, obviously. but I could also keep enabled the > desktop effects without problems. Swap (3 GB in total), when necessary, > increased up to 4/5% on total (I used to keep open Kmail, Amarok, rekonq > or FF, Lokalize at the same time). RAM on startup at abt 45/50% > > My mail: 4 accounts (POP3) with a total of abt 40,000 mails (I deleted > the unneeded ones) > > My system after the update started the migration to the new Kmail > system: it failed, but I succeeded to run it manually. > It started the migration and the SYNCHRONIZATION. From this moment on, > my system has been poorly overloaded, with no way to stop this hell (for > me) "machine" which is Akonadi and its agents: (my poor and old) CPU the > most of time at 100% of load, not for few hours but for DAYS, swap > increased up to 50% (!); RAM always at 80/90%; activities and actions > extremely slowed down. > > Ok, I've been wrong in something. So I deleted my accounts, setup them > again, trying to "clean" the system (luckily, mail servers I use don't > delete mail by default). > Now I tried to setup Gmail as Imap: worst than ever. Kmail couldn't > afford folders/labels of this size (thousands of mails). I deleted the > Imap account and re-setup the POP3 one. No way to solve the huge > workload. And what about opening a mail folder? No way to do that, > unless after few hours. > > Akonadi and mysql daemon seemed to be allied against my system. -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
